SHARE CAPITAL AND DEVELOPMENT.

Abstract

Throughout the entire 20th century, the topic most studied by economists, sociologists, politicians and international organizations was that of the development of countries and their causes. In the 90s, another variable arises on a new growth factor, this time from the perspective of Cooperation: Social Capital. This article addresses the concept from the perspective of various authors and developing key elements of it. Among them: the 4 areas covered by the Social Capital; its classification into 4 types and its 2 basic dimensions. Then he talks about an element that negatively affects the development of Social Capital: Populism. It refers to a classification of the relationship between the State and the communities in which 5 types are conceived, from the most submissive to the most autonomous and of which it recommends the last 3 to favor the accumulation of social capital. Within this classification he places the Venezuelan case with the intention of establishing the Communal State and the reactions of civil society to this proposal. Then he touches on the issue of empowerment and the conditions necessary to achieve it. It also addresses the question: Who should partner locally? As well as the challenges of participation, for the sake of effectiveness and efficiency. Finally, it closes by proposing to socialize the relevant knowledge with the purpose of generating in the group or in the community itself a collective capacity to intervene in the development process of the region, capacity based on will, but above all on shared scientific knowledge about the structure and dynamics of the process it calls for.

Keywords: Social Capital, associativity, Communal State, development